Examples of using Regtp in English and their translations into Danish
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That increase was authorised by RegTP by decision of 13 March 2002.
Even if RegTP had infringed a Community rule and even if the Commission could have initiated proceedings.
Subsequently, by its price cap decision of 21 December 2001, RegTP itself directly organised the progressive price restructuring envisaged.
RegTP follows a similar reasoning in its decisions of 8 February 1999, 30 March 2001, 21 December 2001 and 11 April 2002.
However, it must be held that, within that framework,the applicant was able to adjust its prices after obtaining the prior authorisation of RegTP.
In its decision of 25 January 2002, RegTP closed the proceeding initiated against the applicant concerning predatory pricing in relation to ADSL.
The 10% reduction in the basic amount of the fine to take account of the regulation of charges by RegTP is therefore insufficient.
In that context, RegTP checks whether the wholesale access charges proposed by the applicant satisfy the requirements laid down by Paragraph 24 of the TKG.
In addition, in its judgment of 16 January 2002, the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf held that responsibility for the charges set by RegTP could not be attributed to the applicant.
The applicant observes that RegTP itself has concluded on several occasions since 1998 that there is no margin squeeze to the detriment of the applicant's competitors.
In addition, it noted that the German legal framework did not preclude RegTP from authorising proposed charges which are contrary to Article 82 EC.
Deutsche Telekom informed RegTP of its new rates for the termination of calls from mobile telephones. These were considerably lower than the previous rates.
The applicant claims that the basic component of the charge, namely the price of the basic subscription(analogue or ISDN connection),requires the prior authorisation of RegTP.
According to the telecommunications and post regulator(RegTP), total turnover in telecommunications services in Germany in 2002 was around EUR 61 billion.
RegTP should therefore refuse a retail price adjustment sought by the applicant if the prices contravene Article 82 EC, particularly because of an anticompetitive margin squeeze.
It must be noted that the various decisions of RegTP to which the applicant refers in support of its case do not include any reference to Article 82 EC.
First, as far as narrowband connections are concerned(analogue and ISDN lines), the applicant explains that, under German law,all its retail prices had to be examined and approved in advance by RegTP or, before 1998, by the BMPT.
The applicant nevertheless maintains that it did not have any responsibility under Article 82 EC, as RegTP had checked the compatibility of its charges with Article 82 EC beforehand.
It is true that RegTP examined the issue of the margin squeeze in a number of its decisions, particularly those of 8 February 1999, 30 March 2001, 21 December 2001, 11 April 2002 and 29 April 2003.
By decisions of 9 December 1997 and 23 December 1999 in price cap proceedings, the BMPT and then RegTP initially combined connection and call charges for businesses and for individuals in one basket.
Since November1998 RegTP has been cooperating with the Federal Cartel Office in Germany, asprovided for by law, in an investigation into a case of alleged collusion between T-Mobil, Mannesmannand E-Plus over call termination charges in their respective networks.
At the hearing the applicant pointed out that, during the period from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2001, RegTP had to investigate compliance with the price ceilings separately in respect of business and private customers.
In that respect, it must be observed that, under the second sentence of Paragraph 27(1) and Paragraph 25(1) of the TKG, and Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Charges Order, the applicant's retail prices for access to analogue andISDN lines had to be approved by RegTP in the context of a price cap system.
The applicant submits that,by encroaching on the powers of RegTP, the Commission misused its powers and infringed the principles of proportionality, legal certainty and protection of legitimate expectations.
In that respect, first, it must be noted that the retail charges for access to analogue lines which applied throughout the period from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2001 had not been authorised by RegTP, but were based on decisions taken under the legislation in force before the adoption of the TKG.
When that first period ended on 31 December 1999, RegTP- by decision of 23 December 1999- essentially maintained the composition of the baskets and lowered the prices by a further 5.6% in the period from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2001 second price cap period.
In view of the cap imposed by the decision of the BMPT of 17 December 1997, the applicant had to reduce the aggregate price for each of the two baskets by 4.3% in theperiod from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 1999 and, following the decision of RegTP of 23 December 1999, by 5.6% in the period from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2001.
In addition, RegTP's statement that‘[c]ompetitors are not so prejudiced with regard to their competitive opportunities in the local network by the slight difference between retail and wholesale prices as to make it economically impossible for them to enter the market successfully or even to remain in the market'(decision of RegTP of 29 April 2003) does not imply that the applicant's pricing practices do not distort competition within the meaning of Article 82 EC.
Second, as regards retail prices for ISDN lines, it is undisputed that, following the applicant's application, RegTP authorised a reduction in the basic monthly charges by decision of 16 February 2000 recital 40 to the contested decision.